The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self- 8: Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================================= Saturday 14, September 2024, 05:45. Article Scripture The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 8. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on October 14, 1984) ======================================================================================== But then Sri Krishna gives a masterly stroke, appearing to tell us the easiest thing while he is actually telling us the most difficult thing. And what is that? Athaitad apy asaktosi kartum madyogam asritah, sarvakarmaphalatyagam tatah kuru yatatmavan (BG 12.11): “Even this you find difficult. All right, do what you like, but expect not the fruit of what you do.” Now, we may think that this way is very easy, but no one does anything without some purpose, and that purpose becomes the fruit which we are desiring. There is no action without a fruit that is tagged onto it as a future possibility. So karma yoga may sometimes look like the e...